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October 2026

  • Sophie McNeill

    Activists plan legal action against police ban on entering security zone near Perth weapons expo

    Under new WA laws anyone who defies an exclusion order could face a maximum $36,000 fine and three years in prison

September 2026

  • Taiwanese soldiers use a variant of the US-made Abrams tanks during drills in July 2025.

    Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says

  • Small child and yellow bulldozer with collapsed buildings in backdrop and rebar in foreground

    61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies

  • Polish army tank crew members stand in formation before a battle tank

    Poland is racing ahead with military spending – but will it help or damage its economic growth story?

  • Andy Burnham with apprentices at the Submarine Academy for Skills and Knowledge at BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness in July.

    UK defence contractors to offer 40,000 apprenticeships, placements and jobs

  • Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong

  • Key House Democrat refuses to clear Trump’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel

  • Crossbench MPs launch push to stop Australian military exports being used in human rights breaches

  • Pro-Palestine activists who were sentenced as terrorists launch appeal

August 2026

  • Christopher Harborne and Nigel Farage in front of US Air Force F-22 fighter jets

    Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire

  • British PM Burnham visits Ukraine as the country marks the 35th anniversary of its independenceBritish Prime Minister Andy Burnham reacts as he looks at destroyed Russian vehicles displayed at Mykhailivska Square (St Michael's Square) in the old part of Kyiv, Ukraine, August 24, 2026. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

    The Guardian view on Britain helping Ukraine: build the weapons independence Kyiv needs

  • Andy Burnham shakes hands with Volodymyr Zelensky before a Ukrainian flag at a ceremony

    Burnham accuses Russia of ‘outrageous threats’ against UK as he visits Kyiv

  • Person rides a bicycle in foreground with Wildberries lorries behind and a big plume of smoke rising into the air

    What is behind Russia’s ‘consequences’ threat over UK sending drones to Ukraine?

  • BAE Systems to pay $36m penalty after 104 violations of US arms export rules

  • Vandalism of Melbourne defence manufacturer being investigated as terrorist act by ‘far-left extremists’

July 2026

  • Children surrounded by damaged buildings in Gaza

    Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths

    Government – which provides significant portion of charity’s funding – is understood to have demanded an explanation
  • A rendering of a TKMS 212CD submarine leaving a factory port

    Canada to buy 12 hi-tech German submarines after bidding war

    TKMS beats South Korean rival to multibillion-dollar contract that will deepen Canada’s Nato ties
  • A police officer escorts Reverend Sue Parfitt past other officers at a demonstration

    First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Who are the people trying to protect our right to protest?

    In today’s newsletter: One year on from the proscription of Palestine Action​, an elderly ​retired priest steadied herself on the conviction that protest had become a moral duty,​ while she waited for the police to move in
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June 2026

  • An illustration of Type 31 frigates that are being built for the Royal Navy by Babcock.

    Brexit and Covid beset Royal Navy contractor as profits plunge

  • Geoffrey Robertson

    double quotation markYou may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law

    Geoffrey Robertson
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